Mike shared songwriting duties with guitarist and longtime collaborator Scott Murawski and handed over the producing reins for the first time in his solo career, enlisting Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, Uncle Tupelo, Pixies). He also invited a few new players into the studio, including legendary drummer Matt Chamberlain (Jon Brion, Fiona Apple).

To celebrate the release of Overstep, Mike's band will return to the road with a North American tour that will kick off at the Westcott Theatre in Syracuse, NY on February 28. The run will include shows at New York City's Webster Hall (March 1), the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles (March 17) and the historic Fillmore in San Francisco (March 18) and the band's first performance in Vancouver, BC, Canada (March 22). He'll be joined on the road by his longtime band - Scott Murawski (guitar), Craig Myers (percussion), Tom Cleary (keyboards) and Todd Isler (drums). The band's new repertoire will be augmented by hints of secret synesthetic mad scientist gadgetry on and around the stage.

A limited number of tickets are available NOW via a real-time presale at http://tickets.mike-gordon.com/ (the LA pre-sale has sold out, but goes on sale to the public this Friday). Tickets will go on sale to the public beginning Friday, December 13, at 10:00 AM ET. For further details, visit http://mike-gordon.com/tour. To watch the official tour announcement video, visit http://mike-gordon.com/tour2014/

Trey Anastasio will be hitting the road with his Trey Anastasio Band (TAB) early next year for a headline tour of intimate U.S. venues.

The tour will be kicking off with a two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre in Denver, CO (January 28 and 29). The run will include TAB's first shows in New Orleans since 2005 (February 7 and 8 at House of Blues) and the group's first-ever show in Orlando, FL (February 11 at House of Blues).

On Valentine's Day, Trey Anastasio Band will play a return engagement at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA, where the live album TAB at the Tab was recorded in 2010.

Notes: Runaway Jim contained quotes by Trey of the song "Shaft," including, "Who's the green private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks? Cactus! John Cactus." Before Halfway to the Moon, Trey noted that the band is excited about the tune, and he hopes that it makes the new album, Wingsuit.

Notes: Breaking with tradition, Phish donned a musical costume "from the future," a yet to be recorded album that will apparently be entitled, Wingsuit. All of the songs in the second set were debuts other than Winterqueen, which has been played by TAB. Monica, Snow and Amidst the Pearls of Laughter were all performed acoustic. The Wombat featured the dance stylings of Abe Vigoda and the Abe Vigoda Dancers.